It honestly isn't hard to do annotative scales with design master blocks right now. It would be nice if everything ran annotatively though, as that's where the software has been going since 2008. My only request is that the DM ties multiple scales to the CAnnoScaleValue and make sure it's compatible with sheet set manager views.

You are correct. I want to be able to select a device already on the plan, right click or hit a button on the ribbon, we'll call it DM_SelectSimilar, and it will pull the device information, it's overrides, subscript notes, etc. and start the device placement process, bypassing the "Insert Receptacle/Insert Light Fixture/etc." dialogue box altogether. Copying an existing is fine, but then it doesn't prompt me to rotate the device in place. I could do MOCORO or whatever the command is called, but would prefer an option that comes from DesignMaster itself so that I know what it is I'm doing is intended by the software designers themselves.